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Tucker Carlson mocks axed CNN+ over projections anticipating 29 million 'super-fan' subscribers and says it was 'even less plausible than 81 million votes in a presidential election'
UK Daily Mail ^ | April 30 2022 | HARRIET ALEXANDER

Posted on 04/29/2022 11:12:20 PM PDT by knighthawk

Tucker Carlson on Friday night mocked CNN executives for their optimistic subscriber targets for streaming service CNN+, saying their figures were 'even less plausible' than the numbers of those who voted for Joe Biden.

Carlson, whose Fox News network has delighted in their rival's struggles, was gleeful about the demise of CNN+.

The streaming service began on March 29, and ended on Thursday - less than a month after its launch.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cnn; cnnplus; tuckercarlson
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1 posted on 04/29/2022 11:12:20 PM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

It’s all true and I have unicorns in my yard every morning./s
Tucker’s right. The left is wrong.


2 posted on 04/29/2022 11:17:55 PM PDT by Equine1952
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To: knighthawk

“’The company that employs Joe Rogan, the streaming service Spotify - and you may not have seen this story – had to offload the Obamas to whom they had paid millions and millions of dollars,’ said Carlson.

‘Why? Because nobody wanted to watch the Obamas, either.

‘Because they had nothing to say. Because they’re banal. They’re not interesting in any way.’”

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not a lot of people knew this..


3 posted on 04/29/2022 11:25:23 PM PDT by max americana (fired leftards on cue after every election since 1992, and enjoyed seeing these bastards cry)
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>> ... even less plausible than 81 million votes for Brandon

+1


4 posted on 04/29/2022 11:31:16 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: max americana

If you watched CNN or MSNBC....you wouldn’t know about the Spotify drop of the Ms Obama-show. If you go back to the 2020 summer-period....this was apparently ranked almost at the top of the charts oddly enough.

There seems to be some type of fakeness to the listening numbers (for 2020). Maybe bots?


5 posted on 04/29/2022 11:39:03 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: knighthawk

“What would you say you do here?”


6 posted on 04/29/2022 11:43:28 PM PDT by Ken H (Trump won.)
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To: knighthawk

Tucker! You rascal!


7 posted on 04/30/2022 12:08:46 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Let’s go Brandon!)
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To: knighthawk
But one veteran staffer told The Washington Post: 'We expected them to cut off a few fingers, not the entire arm.'

Shadenfreude overload!

8 posted on 04/30/2022 12:42:38 AM PDT by xp38
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To: knighthawk

CNN+ got what? 10,000 subscribers? I wish MSNBC would do the same - I doubt they’d get 500 people...


9 posted on 04/30/2022 12:53:08 AM PDT by GOPJ (Gumballs and illegals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=LPjzfGChGlE)
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To: GOPJ

There are a lot of cord cutters who want live news.


10 posted on 04/30/2022 1:21:55 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: knighthawk
Look who's talking

Piers Morgan’s new show on TalkTV has seen a slide in viewership so bad in just the first few days that executives at Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation (AKA Fox News Corp.) are discussing how much of a failure he is, and others are already privately comparing the disaster launch to the short-lived failed CNN+ streaming service.

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Morgan’s abject failures may also be decimating the entire TalkTV network effort, as his Wednesday guest Sharon Osbourne — who has her own show on the platform — also dropped in ratings after she appeared with the bumbling British broadcaster this week.

11 posted on 04/30/2022 1:35:32 AM PDT by lewislynn (Is Fox News covering for Soros, Dominion, themselves with their continued silence on 2020)
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To: lewislynn
Central issue - who or what do you really want to pay extra for, when you can get it included in some other service? The perceived notion of "free" is stuck in a lot of people's heads.

My wife wants to subscribe to Comcast cable. OK. my default cable TV channel is TCM, and we pay an extra $10 per month to Comcast so i can watch TCM. (based on how many channels we actually watch, the average cost per month is about $7 per channel, so it's not that much extra anyway).

12 posted on 04/30/2022 2:02:29 AM PDT by Bernard (Jeffrey Toobin may turn out to be the most ethical character at CNN because he only abused himself.)
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To: knighthawk

yeah and ?...................we all know its the truth


13 posted on 04/30/2022 3:07:07 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: max americana

The deal with Spotify had to be a payoff. They couldn’t possibly have thought the Obamas would really generate the kind of viewership that would justify the absurd contract they gave them.

The same goes for Netflix which is now deeply in the red.

The same goes for the book deals he got.

Leftie execs at these corporations showered tens of millions of dollars on Obama because they worship him, not because it ever made any kind of business sense.


14 posted on 04/30/2022 3:35:34 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: max americana

He also mocked Spotify’s multimillion dollar deal with the Obamas, which the former president and his wife ended last week, unhappy with the limitations Spotify placed on them.

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Yeah, I wasn’t aware of this either. So the BroBomas dumped because Spotify wouldnt allow them to spread propoganda? I wonder what limitations there were that cause that Greedy F**k to dump out of a multimillion dollar deal?


15 posted on 04/30/2022 3:37:23 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: knighthawk

CNN MINUS


16 posted on 04/30/2022 3:49:45 AM PDT by MachIV
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To: Samurai_Jack

“I wonder what limitations there were that cause that Greedy F**k to dump out of a multimillion dollar deal?”

Those two race hustling grifters wanted Spotify to pay them millions but not to have exclusive broadcast rights. That’s the story they are sticking to. I’d say paying those two lazy POS what amounted to 3 million per for eight podcasts over two years was too hard to swallow a second go round for Spotify.


17 posted on 04/30/2022 4:21:00 AM PDT by DAC21
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To: knighthawk

He is close to getting fired from NeverTrump News claiming the election was stolen.


18 posted on 04/30/2022 5:58:52 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: knighthawk

“Tucker Carlson on Friday night mocked CNN executives for their optimistic subscriber targets for streaming service CNN+, saying their figures were ‘even less plausible’ than the numbers of those who voted for Joe Biden.”

Will the Murdock wives or Bret Baier try to get Tucker canceled for questioning the scam election count?


19 posted on 04/30/2022 5:59:54 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys” P.J. O’Rourke)
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To: Lisbon1940

We just joined the cord cutter ranks a month or two ago. We moved to YouTubeTv - not crazy about their politics but weren’t crazy about the cable service we dumped either. What I like about YouTubeTV is you can take and delete all the channels you don’t like or move them to the end so you don’t have to scroll through them. CNN, MSNBC — gone. I’d get rid of the rest of the alphabets but my wife likes some shows.


20 posted on 04/30/2022 6:10:03 AM PDT by Mean Daddy (Every time Hillary lies, a demon gets its wings. - Windflier)
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